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...stumping for nomination as Governor; a trio wrangling over a Senatorship. The nation watched the trio for in it was Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 74, dean of Senate Democrats (30 years), upon whose classic brow Franklin Roosevelt had placed his angry Purge mark. Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston, 41, was the Purge's agent and candidate. Third man was State Senator Edgar A. Brown. 50, able parliamentarian, former Speaker of the South Carolina House, who in 1926 came within 5,000 votes of unseating Senator "Cotton Ed." Obedient to Democratic custom, these three toured the State together...
...Writer Johnston had suggested Son Roosevelt's income from his Boston insurance firm of Roosevelt & Sargent was between $250,000 and $2,000,000 a year. Reply (with photographs of his income-tax returns): James Roosevelt's taxable income was as follows...
...Writer Johnston insinuated that, after three false starts in insurance, Son James's ultimate success was entirely due to his father's becoming President. Replies:" Sure, I got into places I never would have if I wasn't the son of the President. . . . But, son or no son, I got tossed out a lot too. Listen, fellow, prospects don't wilt just because you're the son of the President. Try it sometime...
...Writer Johnston charged that many of Son James's accounts were "twisted" away from other agents by his political potential. Reply: "It has never been suggested to me in any form, directly or indirectly, that I intercede for a client or a prospect in any Government branch. . . . And this has surprised me. . . . And naturally I have never suggested to any client . . .that I might exert political influence in his behalf...
...Writer Johnston called James Roosevelt "by a wide margin the biggest whiskey-insurance man in America." Reply: Roosevelt & Sargent never insured "so much as a bottle of whiskey imported into the United States." But their National Distillers Products Corp. account blankets all that big company's plants & stocks...